And you laugh at me for believing fairy tales...?
Eric B.
"Marz" <marz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Stick this in Mixcoatl's pipe. The Culhuacanians want their country
back.
>
> Special Re****t
>
> Saudis, Enron money helped pay for US rigged election
>
> By Wayne Madsen
> Online Journal Contributing Writer
>
> November 25, 2004—According to informed sources in Wa****ngton and
Houston,
> the Bush campaign spent some $29 million to pay polling place operatives
> around the country to rig the election for Bush. The operatives were
> posing as Homeland Security and FBI agents but were actually technicians
> familiar with Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, Triad, Unilect, and Danaher
Controls
> voting machines. These technicians re****tedly hacked the systems to skew
> the results in favor of Bush.
>
> The leak about the money and the rigged election apparently came from
> technicians who were promised to be paid a certain amount for their work
> but the Bush campaign interlocutors reneged and some of the technicians
> are revealing the nature of the vote rigging program.
>
> There have been media re****ts from around the country concerning the
> locking down of precincts while votes were being tallied. In one
> unprecedented action in Warren County, Ohio, election officials locked
> down the facility where votes were being counted. The officials said
this
> was in response to a Level 10 high-threat terrorist warning being issued
> by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI for Warren County.
> George Bush won 72 percent of the vote in Warren County, much larger
than
> his percentage of victory statewide.
>
> The money to rig the election in favor of Bush re****tedly came from an
> entity called Five Star Trust, largely based in Houston but a worldwide
> entity that is directly tied to the Saudi Royal Family. Five Star Trust
> was termed "a well-protected vehicle" that has been used to sup****t both
> Bush and Osama bin Laden in the US and around the world.
>
> Other money used to fund the election rigging was from siphoned Enron
> money stored away in accounts in the Cook Islands, which was once the
base
> of one of the more questionable and Saudi-linked BCCI subsidiaries. Cook
> Islands banks also handled some of the weapons smuggling financing of
the
> Iran-Contra scandal. A former Justice Department attorney who helped
> prosecute the BCCI case said the use of the Cook Islands by the Bush
> reelection team indicates they wanted the bank arrangements to be a
"quick
> folding tent" operation that would cease to exist when the election was
> over. He said the Cook Islands was notorious for not requiring any
> do***entation for such operations.
>
> In fact, the Cook Islands has been a favorite location for various
covert
> intelligence activities. This most recent use of the islands is a
> continuation of a scandal discovered in New Zealand in the early '90s
> called the "Winebox Affair." In 1992, a computer dealer named Paul White
> bought some secondhand computers and floppy disks from the Citibank
office
> in Auckland, New Zealand, that had earlier sold them to a scrap dealer.
>
> White later discovered the floppies (and 10 paper files) detailed a
scheme
> to use the European Pacific Bank in the Cook Islands to bilk foreign
> governments and banks for a phony 15 percent tax bill *****sed on
various
> transactions by the Cook Islands government (at the time run by Tom
Davis,
> a former US Army and NASA research scientist who was allegedly on the
> payroll of the CIA). European Pacific reaped millions of illegal dollars
> from the New Zealand Treasury and a number of Japanese banks, including
> Mitsubi**** Bank. Paul White later died in a suspicious auto accident.
>
> As detailed in the book "The Paradise Conspiracy" by New Zealand
> journalist Ian Wishart, the Cook Islands scheme also involved several
CIA
> operatives, including Lawrence John Fahey, who had an interest in
InterAir
> of Nevada, one of the airlines used by Ollie North to funnel arms to
Iran.
> It also involved William Raupe, a CIA officer stationed under cover as a
> USAID employee at the US embassy in Suva. Raupe had once worked for Air
> America in South East Asia. Another CIA agent active in the Cooks was
> Robert C. Allen, known to New Zealand authorities as a US agent who was
> formerly with the CIA proprietary firm Bishop, Baldwin, Dillingham, Wong
> Ltd. In addition, along with the late former Treasury Secretary William
> Simon, Gerald Parsky was also involved in the European Pacific Bank's
Cook
> Islands operations. Parsky is George W. Bush's chief fundraiser and
> adviser in California (he led Bush's 2000 California campaign) and
> sup****ted Simon's son's unsuccessful bid for the governor****p of
> California against Gray Davis and then again in the recall of Davis.
Enron
> was involved early on with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a meeting in 2001 at
> the Beverly Hills Hotel at the same time Enron was bilking California
> utility customers with increases as high as 1000 percent This scheme
> eventually led to Davis's recall and his replacement by Schwarzenegger.
>
> The Cook Islands-Citibank-European Pacific fraud appeared to have been
> cooked up to take the place of other "outed" CIA banking activities,
> including Nugan Hand Bank in Australia. European Pacific also involved
> assets of BCCI, in particular the Commercial Bank of Commerce in
> Rarotonga, Cook Islands, a BCCI subsidiary. MIchael Hand, a former Green
> Beret who re****tedly served with Deputy Secretary of State Richard
> Armitage in Laos (and whose partner, Frank Nugan, was found shot to
death
> in 1980 in Australia) later turned up associated with Euromac (European
> Manufacturing Center) Ltd., a British company that tried to sell nuclear
> trigger krytrons to Saddam Hussein before the first Gulf War. Nugan
Hand's
> chief counsel, William Colby, a former CIA Director, was found floating
in
> the Chesapeake in 1996.
>
> The sale of nuclear material to Iraq was funded through Saudi operations
> in Houston, including those associated with George H. W. Bush, George W.
> Bush, James R. Bath, and Saudis Abdullah Taha Baksh, and Kamal Adham, as
> well as Lebanese businessman Ghaith Pharaon (who was also involved in
the
> collapse of Miami's CenTrust S&L, a bank that had ties to Jeb Bush).
This
> gang, along with Salem Bin Laden, the older brother of Osama, funneled
> over $1 million into failed Bush ventures, including Arbusto, Spectrum
7,
> and Harken Energy. Some of the Saudi money also financed Enron Oil and
Gas
> Resources (later EOG Resources) in the Belspec Fusselman Field in
Midland,
> Texas, a deal in which George W. Bush had a financial stake. In fact,
> Saudi planes in the 1980s landed in Houston with mountains of cash used
to
> buy nuclear material for Saddam to possibly use against the Iranians.
The
> money was laundered through Houston's Main Bank, a bank close to the
Bush
> family. Skyway Aircraft of Houston, owned by Bath, was invested in by
Abu
> Dhabi's ruler (the main owner of BCCI) and whose parent company in the
> Cayman Islands was used by Ollie North to collect foreign money for his
> Iran-contra enterprise.
>
> Another person involved in the Cook Islands bank defrauding scheme was a
> Lebanese-American named Samir Bashout (alias Dr. Khalaf B. Bashout) who
> set up Midland International Bank and Trust Ltd in the Cook Islands with
> no real capital. Bashout's Midland had nothing to do with Midland Bank
of
> the UK but may have been named for Midland, Texas, of George W. Bush
fame.
> Bashout was later convicted of beating his wife in Rancho Park, Calif.,
> amid a nasty divorce. She claimed he secreted away much of his money.
> Bashout's Metro Bank (Philippines) account in Los Angeles was found to
> contain only $10,000, not the $10 million he claimed to Cook Islands'
> authorities. US Treasury agent John Shockey alerted the Cook Islands
> internal auditor to Bashout's repeated attempts to bounce a check for $5
> million. In January 2002, Hamilton Bank failed after it lost $500
million
> due to loan scandals and money laundering charges. The recipient of a
$5.5
> million loan was Metro Bank International, headquartered in Vanuatu, an
> offshore banking location similar to the Cook Islands. Metro Bank was
> thought to contain some of the billions of dollars laundered by the CIA
> and the Cook Islands International Trust Corp. on behalf of Ferdinand
> Marcos. Marcos's CIA intermediaries in the Cooks were Eldon William
> Morris, James Centers, and Dante Dominigo Agdeppa. Morris was under
> investigation by the Queensland Special Branch and the FBI in Hawaii and
> California.
>
> Bashout was also involved in the defunct World Arabic Television News
> (WATN), an Arabic television network that attracted the attention of the
> Houston-based Arab Times newspaper as not delivering on its promises and
> defrauding investors.
>
> Wayne Madsen is a Wa****ngton, DC-based investigative re****ter. He was
also
> the Operations Officer at Naval Facility Coos Head, Oregon from 1980 to
> 1982 and assisted the FBI and NIS in the investigation as a tem****ary
> special agent.
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